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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 15, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, China, evolution, eyes, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, intelligent design, Karl Popper, microbes, paleontologists, preservation, South Australia, Theodosius Dobzhansky}

Fossil Friday: New Research on How Delicate Soft-Bodied Organisms Can Be Perfectly Preserved

_{Günter Bechly
November 15, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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All the just-so-stories of macroevolution are completely dispensable in real (experimental) biology. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 21, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, China, fossil fuels, grass, human race, human thriving, mining, mosquitoes, nature rights, Pachamama, resources, squirrels, trees}

Pond Scum Is Our Equal: That’s Nature Rights for You

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 21, 2024

Bioethics, Life Sciences

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Now, a “tribunal” will be held in New York to promote the rights of nature and undermine public support for fossil fuels. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, Archaeopteryx, birds, China, dinosaurs, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, paleontology, University of Southampton}

Fossil Friday: More Evidence That “Feathered Dinosaurs” Were Secondarily Flightless Birds

_{Günter Bechly
September 13, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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It definitely looks like the common dino-to-bird narrative has been massively oversold to the public. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 16, 2024

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Arabidopsis, breeders, China, Current Biology, genes, high school, intelligent design, phosphate, roots, soil}

How Roots Become Jackhammers

_{David Coppedge
August 16, 2024

Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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How do flimsy, tiny roots get through hard soil? A root tip hitting hardpan switches on a flurry of signals that get to work on anchorage and penetration. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 31, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, China, climate change, Columbia University, Ecuador, glaciers, Iceland, nature rights, personhood, pollution, river rights, University of Oregon}

Icelanders Nominated a Glacier for President to Push “Nature Rights” Movement

_{Wesley J. Smith
July 31, 2024

Bioethics, Physical Sciences

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Here is a story on “nature rights” activism that, on first impression, leaves one bemused. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, arthropods, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, Early Cambrian, Ediacaran Period, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, marine invertebrates, paleontology, phylogenetic analysis, South China, tardigrades}

Fossil Friday: Kinorhyncha, Yet Another Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
May 3, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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The earliest kinorhynchs were more complex than modern ones. So much for the evolutionary narrative from simple to complex. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 17, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, China, Christianity, Egypt, Europe, Galileo Galilei, historians, history, Isaac Newton, James Tour, Johannes Kepler, pyramids, Robert Boyle, Rome, scientific revolution, Stephen Meyer}

Stephen Meyer and James Tour on Isaac Newton: “Why There, Why Then?”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 17, 2024

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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"Why did science arise in its modern form with its distinctive systematic methods of investigating nature in 16th- and 17th-century Europe?" Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, acorn worms, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, Chengjiang biota, China, Darwinian theory, Fossil Friday (series), ghost lineages, paleontology, sea floor}

Fossil Friday: Hemichordate Body Plan and Lifecycle Goes Back to the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
April 12, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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This Fossil Friday we will discuss the abrupt origin of yet another animal phylum during the famous Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 8, 2024

Categories
Biology
Ethics
Mathematics
Science Education
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), Alvin Plantinga, Aristotle, baseball, Brooklyn College, cancel culture, China, Euclid, freedom, Friedrich Nietzsche, gender, George Orwell, John Archibald Wheeler, Joseph Stalin, knowledge, Ontario, philosophers, Pythagoras, relativism, Richard Rorty, sex, teachers, transgenderism, truth, Twitter, University of Chicago}

The War on 2 + 2 = 4

_{William A. Dembski
April 8, 2024

Biology, Ethics, Mathematics, Science Education

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The people weighing in against 2 + 2 = 4 are not mathematicians but in education departments where they teach the teaching of mathematics. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 15, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, China, Early Cretaceous, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), hemoglobin, homoplasy, Illinois, intelligent design, lancelets, missing links, science, South Africa, stem group}

Fossil Friday: Hagfish and Lampreys Overturn Scenarios of Vertebrate Phylogeny and Evolution

_{Günter Bechly
March 15, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Their fossil record as well as their incongruent pattern of anatomical similarities is better explained by intelligent design. Read More ›